Weird Plot of Womb Bomber (The latest depravity by TROP™)

The New York Post ^ | January 4, 2004 | Brian Blomquist and Andy Geller

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A she-bomber planned to blow up British Airways Flight 223 over Washington with plastic explosives hidden inside her body, a chilling new report says.

U.S. security services told Scotland Yard that the woman — almost certainly linked to al Qaeda — planned to hide 8 to 12 ounces of the material tucked inside her reproductive region, London's Mirror newspaper reported.

When the flight was over the nation's capital, the bomber would go to the bathroom, remove the explosives and detonate a blast that would blow the aircraft out of the skies.

A Homeland Security official said he was unaware of a specific threat of a female suicide bomber who would hide explosives in her body.

But he added, "We've had concerns about IEDs" — improvised explosives devices.

As a result, airport security screeners check for women wearing loose clothing and other signs the official declined to talk about.

"Smuggling a bomb onto a plane by this method is one of our worst nightmares," a senior Scotland Yard source told the newspaper. "If you do not have specific information about the suspect, it would be impossible to carry out an intimate body search of every female passenger."

Flight 223 to Washington's Dulles Airport was canceled for two days because of fears that an al Qaeda terror team planned to hijack the plane and crash it into the nation's capital.

The flight finally took off from London's Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon after being delayed for 3 hours and 20 minutes by security checks.

It landed safely at Dulles around 9:20 p.m. last night

All 268 passengers were searched and taken on board one by one as armed cops and sniffer dogs stood by. Detectives questioned some passengers and U.S. officials checked the full passenger list before the plane was given clearance to leave.

British Airways also cancelled a morning flight from Dulles to Heathrow as well as a flight from London to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and its return today.

The Scotland Yard source said intelligence information indicated the womb-bomb attack was planned for "sometime over the holiday period." A specific British Airways flight was mentioned.

"Because the intelligence did not identify a passenger by name, it was decided to disrupt the plot by canceling the flights," the source said.

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[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Drug mules often swallow condoms full of drugs...what is to stop someone from swallowing a condom of explosives and then taking a laxative. Gross.

[cubreporter]

Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,...that makes sense. :))))

[dennisw]

The thing I dont understand is why would someone go to the bathroom and remove the device before exploding it. Its not like they intend to survive the explosion, might as well sit there and let er go.

Because her body will smother the impact of the bomb which cannot be too big anyway. She will be instructed how to try to explode it near some vital part of the airplane

[demkicker]

Looks like those x-ray machines that show everyone's anatomy in detail are on the horizon. If you ask me to choose between another intrusion vs catching a crotch bombing terrorist, I say go ahead and check out my nekid bod!

[Go Gordon]

But who'd have believed a shoe bomb?

Maxwell Smart?

[Go Gordon]

Because her body will smother the impact of the bomb which cannot be too big anyway.

10-12 ounces of C-4? It wouldn't matter where it was stashed. The plain would be blown in half.

[punster]

You might say that the terrorist would just lay there and go bang.

But on the serious side, such stunts are grave threat.

[VOA]

"10-12 ounces of C-4? It wouldn't matter where it was stashed. The plain would be blown in half."

IIRC, it only took four ounces of Semtex to blow a huge gap in a 747 pressurized to
operating conditions (with the retired plane sitting on the tarmac for the test)

[dennisw]

Is C4 that deadly? Perhaps I'm wrong.
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:gfdIUMl1mM4J:groups.yahoo.com/group/firstammendmentforall/message/12460%3Fsource%3D1+c4+ounces+reid&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[Senormechanico]

How about "Bomb Rooms" at airports? You walk in, and get a quick zap of microwaves or some such. If no boom, you pass.
I'll leave it to the techies to figure if it's at all practical. It could be very profitable for the inventor if it could be done.

SM

[cryptical]

Bad job of the year: Mopping the bomb room after a test failure.

[Dallas59]

"Don't you just love it"

[Senormechanico]

Nah, the technology would be identical to those high tech public bathrooms that self clean each time.

SM

[Ichneumon]

Maybe that should be IU IEDs

You beat me to it. I was thinking "IUD IED".

[Lucas McCain]

You may have coined a new term: crotch bomber.

[manic4organic]

Next thing you'll have is homosexual jihadis with bombs up their...nevermind.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

She's Allahta Fagina.

[RipSawyer]

"We are talking suicide bombers, so why not a surgery?"

Sounds like Dick Tracy, wasn't there a character in the comic strip called "the pouch" who hid diamonds in a fold of skin that snapped shut?

[bvw]

That was a mind-bending comic strip!

[small voice in the wilderness]

OMG!! BWHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Looking for the Jihad-spot